WooCommerce featured products custom field

My understanding is that WooCommerce indicates featured products by maintaining a _featured meta_key with value “yes” or “no” for every single product. However, snippets like the following don’t seem to work:

<?php
$featured = trim(get_post_meta($post->ID, '_featured', true));
if ($featured == "yes") { ?>
	<span class="featured">Featured Product</span>
<?php } ?>

I’ve searched quite a bit and can’t find any way to properly check inside the loop whether a product is featured for custom styling, etc.

Any insight? Cheers!

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